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Kentucky 2026RS

HB 253

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-11-11 12:11:04 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
Kentucky
Session
2026RS
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Administrative Regulations And Proceedings, Boards And Commissions, Education, Elementary And Secondary, Education, Higher, State Agencies, Teachers, Universities And Colleges
Introduced / first action
2026-01-08 05:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum and interventions that do not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum or program that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2027-2028 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability; amend KRS 164.306 to specify that educator preparation programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system; amend KRS 161.028 to require the board to include in the standards set for teacher preparation programs that the programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system.

Sponsors

Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 74)

    executive-signature
  2. delivered to Governor

  3. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate

    passage
  4. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House

    passage
  5. passed 93-1

    passage
  6. House concurred in Committee Substitute (1), Floor Amendment (2) and Floor Amendment (3-title)

  7. posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Floor Amendments (2) and (3-title) and Committee Substitute (1)

  8. to Rules (H)

    referral-committee
  9. received in House

  10. passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1), Floor Amendment (2) and Floor Amendment (3-title)

    passage
  11. floor amendment (1) withdrawn

  12. 3rd reading

    reading-3
  13. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day

  14. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 24 2026

  15. floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill

    amendment-introduction
  16. 2nd reading, to Rules

    reading-2
  17. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)

    committee-passage
  18. to Education (S)

    referral-committee
  19. to Committee on Committees (S)

    referral-committee
  20. received in Senate

  21. 3rd reading, passed 94-1 with Committee Substitute (1)

    passage, reading-3
  22. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 11 2026

  23. 2nd reading, to Rules

    reading-2
  24. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)

    committee-passage
  25. to Primary and Secondary Education (H)

    referral-committee
  26. to Committee on Committees (H)

    referral-committee
  27. introduced in House

    introduction

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